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• High-def player prices fall.

  - 2007-05-21

  By Jennifer Netherby and Susanne Ault Promotions heat up with summer releases As temperatures rise, prices are dropping on high-definition DVD players. Panasonic is making available its first $599 priced Blu-ray...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, Panasonic, Toshiba Corp.

• Freebies flow now.

  - 2006-11-06

  By Susanne Ault Studios bundle titles with HD DVD, Blu-ray players Format marketers and retailers are stepping up bundling and co-promotions of high-definition DVD hardware and software in an effort to woo holiday shoppers. ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, retail company, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp.

• Marketing war looms for dueling DVD formats; HD or Blu-ray? Sony, Toshiba will spend big to win in $24B market.(News)

  - 2006-04-10

  Byline: BETH SNYDER BULIK Byline: BETH SNYDER BULIK

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, DVD, marketing, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp.

• Format fomenting: Toshiba basically threw down the gauntlet to the Blu-ray camp by starting a one-sided price war.(HEADLINERS)

  - 2006-01-09

  LAS VEGAS--I went to an HD DVD presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show here and a Microsoft press conference broke out. Actually, the event was taken over by Microsoft even before it started, as the giant software maker's own keynote pre ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp.

• Toshiba surprises at CES with $500 high-def player: Pioneer, Panasonic Blu-ray players over $1,000.(HARDWARE)(Consumer Electronics Show)

  - 2006-01-09

  LAS VEGAS--Toshiba, the principal backer of the HD DVD format, planted its stake firmly in the low-end of the high-definition hardware market, unveiling a $499.99 HD DVD player at the Consumer Electronics Show here last week. The new model, d ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, hardware, HD-DVD, Panasonic, Toshiba Corp.

• Toshiba: HD DVD's Japan launch postponed: had been planned for December.(HIGH-DEFINITION)

  - 2005-12-19

  The planned December launch HD DVD in Japan has been formally postponed until next year, according to a statement released last week by Toshiba, the format's principal developer. Though speculation about a possible delay had been growing in r ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp.

• High-def highly in flux: as unification mulled.(HEADLINERS)

  - 2005-08-29

  How fluid is the high-definition DVD situation these days? Apparently, the parties can't even agree on whether they're talking to each other. Early last week, media reports from Japan said Sony and Toshiba--the principal developers, resp...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, HD-DVD, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp.

• Knowing when to hold 'em.(HEADLINERS)(HD DVD and Blu-ray business strategies)

  - 2005-08-15

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * HD DVD has made pronouncements of a fourth-quarter launch to pressure Blu-ray out of the high-definition format war, but with time running out and hardware plans still uncertain, the launch is looking less and less likely ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, business strategy, hardware, HD-DVD, Paramount, Toshiba Corp.

• Once more, with feeling: Fox and Warner officials have rarely let an opportunity to snipe at each other go by.(Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)(Warner Bros.)

  - 2005-08-08

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Fox's move to support Blu-ray reflects the ill will between the studio and HD DVD supporter Warner, which began during development of the DVD. * And the format war itself has been generated...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, CSS, DVD, Fox, HD-DVD, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• JAPANESE FIRMS LIKELY TO GIVE UP CHINESE DVD PLAYER MARKET

  - 2005-05-12

  AsiaInfo Services 05-12-2005 Japanese Firms Likely to Give Up Chinese DVD Player Market CHINA, May 12, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- It is reported that a basic agreementof a mixed standard has been reached between the next-generation disc form AsiaInfo...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp.